Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital

[Nick_CT]

Read the entire thread and all the posts before asking someone to 'read your password'.

[mr_dg87]

Hello im sorry if i sound really stupid but im not really too technical savy, i was wondering if anyone can help me with my problem.

I will even PAY some one through paypal if we can resolve the problem.

I have a WD my passport it is 500gb all i know is that: P/N:WDBAAA5000ASL-00 AND S/N:WXC0CA9T7858

the harddrive does not appear any more and has a password which i have seemed to forgot... is there a way to unlock?

i dont want to loose all the stuff on here as it it things such as photos which i will loose forever. please some one help me!

david_g187@hotmail.com

[Dancy]

Hi all,
Sure looks like some of you folks really know what you are doing. Thank you for sharing. I have a Western Digital Scorpio Blue SATA laptop drive from a Toshiba laptop that an "Ex" decided to try for some revenge.

So far, I have been able to create the boot USB thumb drive, get MHDD 4.5 up and running, configure the motherboard so that MHDD can find the drive. Create the read.md script, used HxD hexeditor to create the cs.bin file with the 32 bytes in it and a blank 21.bin and 22.bin.

I start MHDD, press (shift)F3. MHDD finds my drive. I type in the number (12 in my case). Type in EID and MHDD shows all the details and a HIGH security locked drive. I then enter .read and get the following:

LINE 1: RESET
LINE 2: WAITNBSY
LINE 3: REGS = $45 $0B $00 $44 $57 $A0 $80
LINE 4: WAITNBSY
LINE 5: REGS = $D6 $01 $BE $4F $C2 $A0 $B0
LINE 6: WAITNBSY
LINE 7: CHECKDRQ
LINE 8: SECTORSFROM = CS.BIN
ERROR: drive reports error

From what I have read on this thread, this means there is something wrong with my CS.BIN file. Is that correct?
I have attached my cs.bin (renamed bin.txt so it would post) file and perhaps someone may be able to tell me if I am on the right track and if so, would you be so kind as to nudge me in the right direction and/or post a working cs.bin file?

Thank you
Dancy

Attachments

cs.txt

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[Ninja27]

Luda, hi man, sorry for disturb u, well i just toc u only for i wanna know if u can unlock ur wd5000avvs drive, and what tools do u used and how do u do for that, thank in advance man, hope u can help me. cya

[Dancy]

Dang, this tread seems to be dead, too bad, it was badly needed.

[Vulcan]

Dang, this tread seems to be dead

It's not dead - some problems are just not able to be solved remotely within the time that each of us choose to give here for free (we can't try things ourselves when the disk is elsewhere and communication / terminology issues sometimes make it impractical or just too darn long-winded to try to describe actions step by step).

Normal human nature means that criticising the community here by saying the thread is dead, isn't necessarily going to encourage people to answer, IMHO.

too bad, it was badly needed.

If it's "badly needed" then you still have the choice of using the services of a DR company (typically after indemnifying them against legal action from the owner, if it later turns out that it's not actually your drive).

would you be so kind as to nudge me in the right direction

I think you're looking in the correct direction (as you described in your first post) for your problem. The necessary info is clearly given in the first few pages of the thread - but I don't want to take the responsibility for "giving" you the answer, in case it turns out that you're not actually entitled to the information on that disk.

[yonu]

I hate to ask this but could some one explain to me how to create the cs.bin I have never made a file from scratch in a hex editor
Thanks,
yonu

[yonubear]

please disregard my last post after looking that the text of the cs.bin i figured it out

[yonubear]

is it possible someone might beable to help me out I have ran the scripts and have the 21.bina nd 22.bin but can't seem to find the password here is the output from 22.bin I assume that the XXXXXXXXXXX is the master password but it rejects it

Code:

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000000   3C 55 00 01 00 00 20 00  64 00 00 BA 00 19 01 00   <U      d  º   
00000010   00 00 00 00 00 00 01 60  02 12 00 22 00 0A 00 00          `   "   
00000020   00 00 00 01 03 01 00 00  01 E0 01 0F 0F 01 02 02            à     
00000030   0A 01 02 00 02 02 08 01  00 FF FF 02 03 50 01 1E            ÿÿ  P 
00000040   64 00 11 04 40 0B 02 00  01 00 00 00 00 05 00 00   d   @           
00000050   00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00  00 12 0A 12 00 00 00 05      ÿÿ           
00000060   00 00 00 00 00 1E 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4D                  M
00000070   00 29 00 07 00 12 2E 00  00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 05    )    .         
00000080   00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00  07 00 01 02 0D 00 01 03                   
00000090   00 03 01 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 01 57 44 43                WDC
000000A0   20 57 44 32 35 30 30 42  45 56 54 2D 37 35 5A 43    WD2500BEVT-75ZC
000000B0   54 32 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20   T2             
000000C0   20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                   
000000D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00                   
000000E0   01 53 7C 42 7C 4C 7C 50  4D 4D 53 48 47 43 5A 52    S|B|L|PMMSHGCZR
000000F0   4E 56 41 4B 52 55 46 00  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20   NVAKRUF         
00000100   20 20 20 20 20 30 38 2D  30 39 2D 32 30 30 39 00        08-09-2009
00000110   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                   
00000120   00 00 00 00 00 00 01 07  00 10 1E 00 00 00 00 00                   
00000130   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                   
00000140   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 45 2F 00 00 00 00 00            E/     
00000150   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                   
00000160   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 08 40 FE FF 00 01 30             @þÿ  0
00000170   00 00 05 00 64 00 14 20  32 00 00 00 0F 00 01 02       d   2       
00000180   00 00 01 78 00 32 00 20  00 55 FF 00 01 00 00 00      x 2   Uÿ     
00000190   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                   
000001A0   00 00 00 00 00 58 58 58  58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58        XXXXXXXXXXX
000001B0   58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58  58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
000001C0   58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58  58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
000001D0   58 58 58 58 58 01 01 01  01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00   XXXXX           
000001E0   00 00 00 00 01 30 30 5A  43 30 30 37 35 1D 00 05        00ZC0075   
000001F0   00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 01 02 05 10                   


[yonubear]

I got it solved that you all verymuch for the informative post prior to mine it turned out to be spaces

Thanks again you have just made be a very happy PC tech

[jonnybgud]

Nirvanowiec,

Hi, im having trouble finding the password for my drive, i have the .22bin and have used a hex editor, cannot seem to see it...could you help, please

[eltufe]

hello everyone!!

can someone help me unlock my hard drive ().... i ran all the scripts on this topic and i came up with this file (in the attachments)...This file is a hex file of the three firts sectors...my head is killing me, and I can't find my password, can someone please help me??

Attachments

lol.BIN.txt

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[mattcronin]

Hi Guys,

I've read through this forum a few times now, I understand what I need to do however I'm receiving the common error when trying to run my scripts... my cs.bin file clearly was created wrong. Can somone tell me how they created their cs.bin file? this information isn't what is used to read the password so it should be okay to post I hope, I have a WD3200BEVT which I need to unlock, i don't care about the data on there.... just need to unlock it.


Also I've tried zu.exe and when i run zu /p it just gives me an error message... any ideas?

I apologies for not understanding how to create a cs.bin, but I have but the effort in to read the forum and google turns out to not be my friend this time

[shredderofdabc]

mattcronin


Check out page 5, Morbious posted a full walkthrough with all needed downloads and instructons, it's what I used, and it worked like a charm, same model of drive too.
I just wanna say thanks to everyone who's been helping, especially for people like me who have to deal with this day in and day out.

But I need someone's help, Can someone help my with reading my 22.bin file?

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[dick]

shredderofdabc, Well done for dumping the file! Password= dope

[shredderofdabc]

Seriously, is that my password? Or am I the brunt of a not so funny joke?

[Vulcan]

@shredderofdabc:

If the password is not familiar to you, that tells us that it's not your drive, doesn't it?!

Edited to add: Actually, I can think of legitimate scenarios, but this is the whole problem with giving passwords to unknown people - we can't tell if the person who is asking, is entitled to have access to that drive... See the problem?

Last edited by Vulcan on September 16th, 2011, 11:55, edited 1 time in total.

[shredderofdabc]

No it's a customers of mine, he brought it in with a Lenevo laptop. I'm a tech bud.

Edit: but I see your point, it's good though you guys are keeping it honest, I've seen a lot of posts here that seem quite unscrupulous.

[Vulcan]

No it's a customers of mine

You sound genuine, so sure, it could be - or it could be a stolen laptop, and you're pretending to be a tech, and we're helping someone to get unauthorised access to data. How do we know which is true? Do you see the problem? Few people outside the regulars here, really know who the rest of us are...

Anyway, let's put it this way, the legit owner should recognise the password and the important way in which it must be entered, for it to be succcessful.

Edited to add: I see you just edited yours after my previous update, so you do sound genuine - but again, isn't this what a thief would also do?! Since my GF had her laptop stolen, this is a sore point for me...

[Vulcan]

Here's another possibility - you really are a tech, but the "customer" stole the laptop In that case, I would say "The password begins with 'd' - does that ring any bells, Mr. Customer?" If he hasn't got a clue, then I would doubt it's his...